Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put 'A Clockwork Orange' my way, and 'Catcher in the Rye.'
I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.
It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.
I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
I thought I would be a teacher; I think my eventual goal was to be the principal of my old high school.
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
[his last words] Teacher Kitano: The last one... Cookies sure were good.
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern with Jews and Judaism.
